Long Lake man dies in car crash

April 1, 2013

LONG LAKE - This small community reeled Saturday as residents awoke to the news that a local young man had died in a car crash early that morning.

Thom Ross, 22, was pronounced dead on the scene.

Jonathan Herrick, a state police sergeant stationed at Tupper Lake's barracks, told the Enterprise Saturday that the incident was reported to 911 at 2:33 a.m. that morning. Ross was driving his 2007 Ford Focus north on Deerland Road, near Emerson Road, when he lost control of the vehicle and it overturned, Herrick said.